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Wartime Christmas Festival 2014

Take a step back in time and discover how Christmas was celebrated during the two world wars and beyond!

Celebrate Christmas on the Home Front, make wartime Christmas decorations, enjoy a variety of activities, traditional carols and music, and meet Father Christmas as he arrives by tank!

Then enjoy our indoor Christmas Market; with over 50 traders offering local crafts and produce with Christmas treats and gift ideas for all.

• Meet Father Christmas and see him arrive by tank!
• Sing along with the Land Girls and their 1940’s classics.
• Story time with Martin Impey and book signing of “The Christmas Truce”.
• Living History – Christmas on the front line.
• Fancy Dress! There will be a prize for the child who comes in the best fancy dress costume.

• Learn about life in the Women’s Land Army.
Christmas Carvery Lunch*.
• Vintage performance from the Singing Spiv.
Singing from the Bovington Military Wives Choir (Saturday) and Weymouth Choral Society (Sunday).

*Additional charges apply.

Jenny Harrison

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